Juvenile Diversions.—One day Billy and Sammy were playing by a mud hole, and Billy ho said—“ Now, Sammy, ’lets play we was a barnyard. You be a pig and lie down and woller, and I’ll be a bull and teller like everything.” So they got down on their hands and knees, and Sammy he went in the dirt and wallowed, while Billy bellowed like distant thunder. By and bye Sammy he came up muddy—you never saw such a muddy little fellow—and he said—“ Now, you’ll he the pig and let me heller.” But Billy he said—“l andt a very good pig, except for dinner, and it’ll be time ’nntf for to heller when yor mother sees yer close,”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2238, 20 May 1880, Page 3
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